Enterprise social networking: Opportunities, adoption, and risk mitigation

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 202-220

  Turban, Efraim ^a   Bolloju, Narasimha ^b   Liang, Ting Peng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enterprise social networking; Fit viability analysis; Risk analysis and mitigation; Technology adoption; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960956874     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919392.2011.590109     Document Type: Article

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